The Games Of December

The Games Of December

Posted by Aaron on 2nd Dec 2019

Week of 12/1

Gang Beasts (PS4/XB1): Welcome to Beef City. Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal mêlée fight sequences, and absurdly hazardous environments. Set in the hostile mean street “meatropolis” of Beef City. Customize your character and fight local and online enemies in the melee game mode or fight with friends against the gangs of Beef City in the gang game mode. Gang Beasts is developed by Boneloaf, a small independent game studio making a series of experimental multiplayer party games.



Mars Odyssey (PS4): Mars Odyssey is a single player simulator experience that is VR and non-VR compatible. Land on the red planet. Walk the surface of Mars in your living room and interact with full-scale, realistic NASA Landers and Rovers. Learn about the Red Planet, its history, and its geography in this interactive experience.




Super Street - The Game (PS4): Super Street: The Game is the official arcade racing game for Super Street, the world’s number one in automotive tuning culture. Start from the bottom with nothing but scrap as you build your dream ride part by part and use it to tear up asphalt in a wealth of different game modes and environments. Experience intense action-packed classic arcade racing pushing your car to the limit. Customize your ultimate street racer using tons of authentic car parts and unleash it on the streets, leaving behind a trail of spectacular and detailed destruction. Super Street: The Game delivers street racing as it should be.


Neverwinter Nights (PS4/XB/Switch): Slink through the Shadows...as a deadly half-elven rogue, wield fearsome magics as a powerful gnomish sorcerer, vanquish your foes as an armor-clad dwarven paladin... whatever hero you create, incredible adventures await. Discover magic, wonder, and danger at every turn on your own or with friends in these classic Dungeons & Dragons adventures.





Ancestors - The Humankind Odyssey (XB1): Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in this exhilarating new adventure from the creator of Assassin's Creed. Grow your clan and find strength in numbers as you progress through critical evolutionary stages of human evolution. Your choices will write your clan’s story and determine if you can survive your evolution.



Week of 12/8

Shovel Knight - Treasure Trove (PS4/XB1/Switch): Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the full and complete edition of Shovel Knight, a sweeping classic action adventure game series with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic! Become Shovel Knight, wielder of the Shovel Blade, as he runs, jumps, and battles in a quest for his lost beloved. Take down the nefarious knights of the Order of No Quarter and their menacing leader, The Enchantress.





Call of Juarez - Gunslinger (Switch): From gold mines to saloons, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales. Live the epic and violent journey of a ruthless bounty hunter on the trail of the West’s most notorious outlaws. Blurring the lines between man and myth, this adventure made of memorable encounters unveils the untold truth behind some of the greatest legends of the Old West.





AVICII Inventor (PS4/XB1/Switch): Belt up and blast into the rhythmic regions of unexplored space in AVICII Invector. Created in collaboration with the late superstar DJ, AVICII Invector is a pulse-pounding, frenetic rhythm-action experience. Soar through vocal melodies, sweep each fade and attack every beat in 25 of AVICII’s biggest hits, including global chart toppers: Without You, Wake Me Up and Lay Me Down. Fly solo or recreate the party feeling of an AVICII concert with heart-thumping, competitive gameplay. Each track is built to perfectly match the on-screen visuals taking you through a musical odyssey of serene exploration. Find your rhythm, feel the beat and keep the musical journey flowing.


BlackSad - Under The Skin (PS4/XB1/Switch): A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad. The early 50s: Joe Dunn, owner of a boxing club, is found dead. Meanwhile, rising star Robert Yale, due to take to the ring for the most important fight of his career, has mysteriously disappeared. Sonia Dunn, Joe’s daughter, takes over the club and must deal with its financial woes. She hires private detective John Blacksad to investigate Yale’s disappearance and to find the missing man. This sinister case will take our investigator to the darkest, most dismal depths of New York. With its anthropomorphic characters and its incredible 1950s feel, BLACKSAD: Under the Skin promises all the eerily dark adventure of a detective novel, just like the eponymous comic book series. Investigations, searches for clues, fights, witness interviews: let your feline instinct guide you as you infiltrate the corrupt world of boxing.

Deadly Premonition Origins (Switch): Deadly Premonition Origins lets long-time fans and newcomers alike play the original cult classic survival-horror game on the Nintendo Switch for the first time. Regularly regarded as an example of 'games as art', deadly Premonition holds the guinness world record for the most critically polarizing survival-horror game, cementing its status as a cult classic for the genre. Genre-bending fun though deadly Premonition is a horror game, it's best known for its oftentimes unintentional comedy. A lot to explore enjoy an expansive open world, featuring an enormous cast of NPCs, each with their own unique mysteries to solve. 



SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!